Car-coupling.



UAR GOUPLING. armonici funn' 11.16, 1909. nmmwnn JULY 2a. 1910.

991,858. Patenqmay 9,1911.

. invention: Fig. 2 is a UniTnD STATES ATENT OFFICE.

HARRY T. KRAKAU, 0F CLEVELAND, 0.1519, ASSGNOR T0 THE NATIONAL MAILLEABLE CASTINGS COMPANY, 0F CLEVELAND, @H199 CORPORATION 0F OHIO.

CARFCDUPLINi-,

atented May 9, 1911. originai application med June 1, 190s, seriai No. 435,956.' Divided @ne 'han .application filed April 16,

- 1909, sena1No.49o,2so. Renewed July 2s, 1910. serial ne.. 5ta-ee?.

middle points so as to To all whom it may concern:

of the horizontal ribs Be 1tl known that I, Hmm T. KRAKAL, of Cleveland, in the countgi7 of Cuyahoga ceived upon the end and State of Ohio, have invented a new and These ribs are not. tied useful Car-Coupler, which .was described in 2 of the guard arm but mvapplication No. $35,956, filed by me on space T betweeinso that there is no tendency June l, 1908. of which this present applicato create a breaking` point in the guard arm. tion is. a division. The vertical ribs merely hold the horizontal The following is a specification of said ribs together at their' out?? ClgGS- l improvement, reference being had to the ac- ,Y

1. A coupler head'havin a guard arm companying drawings in Whiehigure l is a car coupler embodying my provided With horizontal ri; fltfl itftll horizontal section ribs connecting the;` l is a vertical sect-ion on 2. A coupler head having a guard um provided With horizontal ribs and ver-tieni thereof; and Fig. 3

Fie. 2.

ribs connecting them. with space bet-Ween the line III- III` of In the drawing, 2 represents the coupler the vertical ribs and the body of the guard arm.

head which I illustrate 1n my preferred form, but which may be modied in man;v Wavs.

In testinimigsf my hand.

prevent t'leetraetien when blows are reof the guard alf-niE to the vertical wall and still preserve the invention which I dewhereof; l have hereunto eet scribe and claim herein.

is the knuckle, l is the lock. In accordance with my invention the coupler is formed with vert-ical ribs 5. which Y connect integrallyr the horizontal ribs 6 of the guard arm 2 of the coupler attheir Haaiir ii naaien",

vitnesses A. T. DEXTER, HARRY E. One.y

haie an intervening 30 

